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give it up for mary louise. stand up, mary louise. [applause] our annual ceremony has become an important event on cleveland social and intellectual calendar and that takes an entire team of people including ron of course but also cindy schultz. cindy, please stand up in the six other team members who have worked for months to create this evening. give it up for cindy. [applause] as married with louise put it to me just yesterday and i quote the e-mail making sure i was going to be here, the e-mail -- called me when i was on the plane. i stop to get a shoe shine and she almost had a heart attack. i'm quoting from her e-mail to shove her that i do read them even if i do ignore them. [laughter] edith anisfeld-wolf she wrote was a quiet and reserved person and would be astonishing thrilled with how many people across the country now understand her resolve to open minds, to open minds to the rich diversity of human culture and the tragedy and waste of prejudice in nature. it's an honor to serve as chair of jerry and to play even a modest
give it up for mary louise. stand up, mary louise. [applause] our annual ceremony has become an important event on cleveland social and intellectual calendar and that takes an entire team of people including ron of course but also cindy schultz. cindy, please stand up in the six other team members who have worked for months to create this evening. give it up for cindy. [applause] as married with louise put it to me just yesterday and i quote the e-mail making sure i was going to be here, the...
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pietrusza, why do u like louise brooks and what areavhioric es because of the style of pro cahes lyand such auris ic iwaer similar or hertory, false spring which is about baseball and a young guy who relyas all the dgs he wldivo kesssimlf, jo-- jeine jerkiness, louise brooks is beautiful and make a lotf ak ita edthannaso dt di h young and beautiful but did not serve her well in the long run. but in eonrusotimes e d tsn fe. maybe you are roy hobbs andn herldhe cou a h ri a on ok isanpietru >> caller: i am here. i am right outside greenville, mississippi where a lot of authors are from. i am originlyrosconn. th wg.96 i was in the library studying a book about fascism. moricans rlly d't unrs wa faist al in t of republicans are really fashioned and that is a radical statement ut i would like your en tha gu jogorgecd gh what constitutes fascism and fascism is somethini is a, temperamentally, and kind of like occupy wall street where they don't even know what the als are but we are goi t mpeny al y doesn't fit into that mold. >> host: hendersonnevada. >caller: i haveeen reai am struck by the
pietrusza, why do u like louise brooks and what areavhioric es because of the style of pro cahes lyand such auris ic iwaer similar or hertory, false spring which is about baseball and a young guy who relyas all the dgs he wldivo kesssimlf, jo-- jeine jerkiness, louise brooks is beautiful and make a lotf ak ita edthannaso dt di h young and beautiful but did not serve her well in the long run. but in eonrusotimes e d tsn fe. maybe you are roy hobbs andn herldhe cou a h ri a on ok isanpietru...
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one night during their stay in new hampshire, louise and the girls worked in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner while alan and his father, the admiral and the colonel sat in the living room sipping snifters of brandy. in the corner stood the pipe organ. a reminder of the saturday afternoons so long ago when alan trundled along with his father to the church and helped to tune the 600 pipes of the huge church organ. over the years, he had continued to run the small-town insurance agency, lunching at the same restaurant day after day, year after year. his son meanwhile sailed aboard navy jets to all corners of the world and drove corvette, rocketed to space and golfed on the moon, arguably one of the most eloquently traveled men alive. and yet alan had developed an admiring respect for his father's home spun and simplified lifestyle. my father's example was he led a good life. that evening after dinner father and son talked about shepherd's promotion to admiral, about his plans for the future and about the moon. at one point, bart turned to his son and said do you remember when you fi
one night during their stay in new hampshire, louise and the girls worked in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner while alan and his father, the admiral and the colonel sat in the living room sipping snifters of brandy. in the corner stood the pipe organ. a reminder of the saturday afternoons so long ago when alan trundled along with his father to the church and helped to tune the 600 pipes of the huge church organ. over the years, he had continued to run the small-town insurance agency,...
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give it up for mary louise. stand up, mary louise. [applause] our annual ceremony has become an event in cleveland social intellectual calendar and that takes an entire team of people to pull off, including ron of course, but also sandy shoals. cindy, please stand up in the six other team members who have worked for months to create this evening. give it up to cindy. [applause] as mary louise put it to me just yesterday, and i quote an e-mail, making sure it's going to be here, she e-mailed me three times and called me when i was on the plane. i mean, it was terrible. i was coming. i start to get my shoes shined in each of us had. i'm quoting from her e-mail to show her that i do read them, even if i do ignore them. edith anisfield-wolf she wrote was a quiet and reserved person would be astonished and thrilled with how many people across the country now understand her resolve to open mind. to open minds to the rich diversity of human cultures in the tragedy of waste of prejudice. it's about to serve as chair of the jury into play even
give it up for mary louise. stand up, mary louise. [applause] our annual ceremony has become an event in cleveland social intellectual calendar and that takes an entire team of people to pull off, including ron of course, but also sandy shoals. cindy, please stand up in the six other team members who have worked for months to create this evening. give it up to cindy. [applause] as mary louise put it to me just yesterday, and i quote an e-mail, making sure it's going to be here, she e-mailed me...
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mike was dragging -- and louise went over to help. he returned fire and if he did he was hit a bullet as well. it just started off this whole chain where it was, the fire was relentless, there was no cover and truly at that moment there was no way out. >> alright, well i mean, we could probably tell you about the rest of the book but then you wouldn't buy it. with that said we are going to leave it at that and let you guys hopefully by the book but let's step back for one second from this mission. the afghan commanders were key part of this mission and that was one of the reasons why they were cast to go on this mission. at the time this was the third mission. they were brand-new unit. they were essentially created to carry out these high-value issues tick capture the high-value targets. they were mentored by american special forces. actually this team was the first team to go and mentor them are going at this point i have seen them in action a couple of times. as all ana units they are a little uneven but overall they have a good tra
mike was dragging -- and louise went over to help. he returned fire and if he did he was hit a bullet as well. it just started off this whole chain where it was, the fire was relentless, there was no cover and truly at that moment there was no way out. >> alright, well i mean, we could probably tell you about the rest of the book but then you wouldn't buy it. with that said we are going to leave it at that and let you guys hopefully by the book but let's step back for one second from this...
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history and success but my concern is there's only one woman and there was the fireplace stanford and louise edwards, he really didn't answer why of all the african-american women is their only one -- they have that as many in the actions or significant inventions as all the other ones we get and all the ones we get during black history month. >> guest: thanks. the one that we were able to find did not impress us as much as dr. thomas. that was very impressive. >> host: maybe there's another book behind this. >> guest: a book on women in vendors. it is just the all the other ones we fought for significant and we didn't want to exclude women so we made sure we had dr. thomas. but of course there are many inventions by women that are worthy of the book. >> host: you are very involved in stem education to get students to study science, technology and math and engineering and the like. is this in concert with this book and that effort? >> guest: yes. the fact that all the people that are heroes in this book are mathematicians, engineers, chemists, and other people involved in science is a key is
history and success but my concern is there's only one woman and there was the fireplace stanford and louise edwards, he really didn't answer why of all the african-american women is their only one -- they have that as many in the actions or significant inventions as all the other ones we get and all the ones we get during black history month. >> guest: thanks. the one that we were able to find did not impress us as much as dr. thomas. that was very impressive. >> host: maybe...
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c-span: louise barnett, author of "touched by fire," what's that title mean? >> guest: it comes from a speech that oliver wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. he said, "to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. and we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing." i haven't exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired and matured in a way that perhaps hasn't happened to every generation. c-span: but the subtitle on your book is "the life, death and mythic afterlife of george armstrong custer." who was general custer? >> guest: well, custer was part of that generation that was touched by the fire of the civil war. he had a splendid, heroic career as a general in the civil war. and then afterwards, the time when he becomes very interesting to me, at the age of 25, he was one of 135 unemployed major generals. he had to redirect his life. for the first few years, it wasn't easy. and then he found a new career on t
c-span: louise barnett, author of "touched by fire," what's that title mean? >> guest: it comes from a speech that oliver wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. he said, "to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. and we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing." i haven't exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired...
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. >> the 1978 birth of louise brown. does that compare to the founding of a vaccine for polio, etc. as far as scientific experiments? >> i think so, absolutely. in fact it is a different kind of juncture. it's not another vaccine however important it's the first time in human history that a child is being conceived in a laboratory of side of the womb but it raises all kinds of issues about family life that we've been wrestling with, km, childhood, section of the from and what i focus on in this book is what it means for science and technology and where we want to draw the lines in the past and in the future about the kind of research that we are willing to count with embryos in the laboratory. >> professor banchoff, which you consider embryo politics to be a personal issue, a scientific issue, state issue, religious issue? >> i think it is all of those and as a political scientist most interested in the political dimension but what makes the book different from most political science books is the centrality of ethics and fundamental questions about life and death and human suffering
. >> the 1978 birth of louise brown. does that compare to the founding of a vaccine for polio, etc. as far as scientific experiments? >> i think so, absolutely. in fact it is a different kind of juncture. it's not another vaccine however important it's the first time in human history that a child is being conceived in a laboratory of side of the womb but it raises all kinds of issues about family life that we've been wrestling with, km, childhood, section of the from and what i...
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. >> louise knows not eight words. i can't get it under 800 words. read a paragraph where i lay out the fee since more elegantly than i could offhand. it talks about fears about -- talks about the fbi starting the investigation of radicals in hollywood as early as 1918. j. edgar mover was -- had his agents trailing people making radical film that the time. such fears about radical -- in the movie industry reflect longstanding conventional wisdom that hollywood has always been a bastion of the political left. conventional wisdom is wrong on two accounts. first, hollywood has a longer history of conservatism than liberalism. it was the republican party, not the democratic party that established the first political beachhead in hollywood. second and far more surprising, the hollywood left was more numerous and visible, the hollywood right led by louis mayor, george murphy, ronald reagan, charlton heston and arnold schwarzenegger has had a greater impact on american political life. the hollywood left has been more effective at publicizing and raising fun
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. >> professor, what have we done scientifically since 1978 when louise brown was born? >> well, a key juncture to place five years later when scientists were able to freeze work prior preserve embryos. so since then we have dealt with the question of the embryos left over from the idea of treatments, many of which will not be used by our parents open to have children . and so that breakthrough have preservation, the ability to pile embryos and use them in resech
. >> professor, what have we done scientifically since 1978 when louise brown was born? >> well, a key juncture to place five years later when scientists were able to freeze work prior preserve embryos. so since then we have dealt with the question of the embryos left over from the idea of treatments, many of which will not be used by our parents open to have children . and so that breakthrough have preservation, the ability to pile embryos and use them in resech
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lie tie lar colin, great man on economics, and a lot of other colleagues in different disciplines, louise shelly, a global leader in documents and researching and working on human trafficking. president obama was at the clinton global initiative announcing a major new direction on the topic, and there are many people who work on this topic who have helped move it forward in the agenda, but she's one of them and really deserves a lot of credit. >> host: talking with philip auerswald. book tv on location at george mason university. >> it was almost two years ago i decided it was time to write a fact based primmer on gay rights, specifically targeted to the right of center voters, hence the subtitle of the book. to do two things. number one, challenge religious right on its own turf and show that much of what they deer risively call the gay agenda is consistent with republican and libertarian voters, and show voters who believe in social tolerance not only are they not a voice in the wilderness, but represent a majority of republican voters. the book has three major things. the first one i j
lie tie lar colin, great man on economics, and a lot of other colleagues in different disciplines, louise shelly, a global leader in documents and researching and working on human trafficking. president obama was at the clinton global initiative announcing a major new direction on the topic, and there are many people who work on this topic who have helped move it forward in the agenda, but she's one of them and really deserves a lot of credit. >> host: talking with philip auerswald. book...
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louise just smiled. so, jesus said you're wondering if this is real. jesus spoke in sondra's voice but an okay -- octave lower and she arrested the blade before contacts so that the blows became taps. i was being knighted i was a mother father of the division. jesus kept talking murmuring just for me. my knees hurt, my legs were asleep. i was afraid i wouldn't be able to get up. what jesus was saying she explained was private, personal, a secret of sorts but, sondra, i said, jesus, she said. jesus, i said. you know i'm here to write about this. no, details, jesus declared. but the gist i could share so here it is. jesus knew that i didn't believe her and that was okay. because she understood my skepticism, she said. and she knew where it came from. and then she delivered an outline of my life story. it was nothing magical about it. sondra had simply stored every fact i revealed about myself in passing and assembled as a narrative colored by her analysis of my motives and fears and for the most part she got it right. sondra knew why there i was. why i w
louise just smiled. so, jesus said you're wondering if this is real. jesus spoke in sondra's voice but an okay -- octave lower and she arrested the blade before contacts so that the blows became taps. i was being knighted i was a mother father of the division. jesus kept talking murmuring just for me. my knees hurt, my legs were asleep. i was afraid i wouldn't be able to get up. what jesus was saying she explained was private, personal, a secret of sorts but, sondra, i said, jesus, she said....
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luis louise erdrich, the roundhouse. published by harper. an imprint of harpercollins. ben johnson, published by ecco press, an imprint of harpercollins. kevin powers, the yellow birds. published by little brown. [applause] the 2012 national book award for fiction goes to the roundhouse by louise erdrich. [applause] ♪ hey baby, where are you? [applause] ♪ >> well met. hello, my relatives. the national book foundation and also the judges are two ways to shout out for all of the native people who are watching this livestream. [applause] i want to thank harpercollins. it is not even a huge company anymore. [laughter] but it has always been about four or five people to me, people who believed so strongly in my work that they have supported me and my family and literature, my bookstore and all of us who work there through these years. i want to thank my editor terry cardin, for believing in the book. [applause] jonathan burnham, jane byrne, trent duffy. i want to thank andrew wylie and jen off. i want to say to my fellow writers, you have written extraordinary books. i d
luis louise erdrich, the roundhouse. published by harper. an imprint of harpercollins. ben johnson, published by ecco press, an imprint of harpercollins. kevin powers, the yellow birds. published by little brown. [applause] the 2012 national book award for fiction goes to the roundhouse by louise erdrich. [applause] ♪ hey baby, where are you? [applause] ♪ >> well met. hello, my relatives. the national book foundation and also the judges are two ways to shout out for all of the native...
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well, boy, right off the top of my head, early on in life it was prevent writers lake louise fitzhugh road. the spy and of course harper lee who wrote "to kill a mockingbird." those really shaped my life. i was very affected by billie jean king. that was a famous tennis match and 73 that i watched. shirley chisholm. my mother took me to hear her when she ran for president in 72. i heard her speak at the university. i was very much aware that a black one was running for president is very frosted they could not out yet. later on i was very impressed by the emerging doses, authors. but also i had globally in terms of jewish women who had been resistance fighters in the holocaust and the memoirists who wrote about the struggle for women to tell their stories in a female voice and nationally i majored in jewish history as an undergrad who lived in israel for a year. some kind of all over the place in terms of survivors, those unafraid to speak. those who were able to use the written word the way a hope to one day. >> host: contemporarily, who are some of your heroes? >> guest: and again he
well, boy, right off the top of my head, early on in life it was prevent writers lake louise fitzhugh road. the spy and of course harper lee who wrote "to kill a mockingbird." those really shaped my life. i was very affected by billie jean king. that was a famous tennis match and 73 that i watched. shirley chisholm. my mother took me to hear her when she ran for president in 72. i heard her speak at the university. i was very much aware that a black one was running for president is...
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saturday night and stayed in, and exhausted from covering the conflict and before we knew it we put and louise to sleep. shea the 6 months old at the time and suddenly there was a large explosion and we could feel the windows in our apartment rattle. we look to each other and we knew immediately what had happened. there had been a bombing at a cafe. we lived on the same street as the prime minister's residents and their with the cafe called the moment cafe. the baby woke up and we started passing her back and forth. started calling the police and i was on the phone with my fox team. already on the scene because that is what we did. with a fire drill and we knew, we started running from the apartment, the owner of the cafe at the apartment building, and he knew intuitively that it was his cafe. this is our life for quite some time. >> we wanted to do more than compile anecdotes. we wanted to humanize the story and tell what it was like for israelis and palestinians. they have been living through this their entire lives. you could certainly go back to 1948. in the state of conflict -- they have
saturday night and stayed in, and exhausted from covering the conflict and before we knew it we put and louise to sleep. shea the 6 months old at the time and suddenly there was a large explosion and we could feel the windows in our apartment rattle. we look to each other and we knew immediately what had happened. there had been a bombing at a cafe. we lived on the same street as the prime minister's residents and their with the cafe called the moment cafe. the baby woke up and we started...
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louise anthony and mary were veterans, a depth. so when it came time for me to graduate the let me away from the living room and into the candle at steady sounder are rated -- operating with the sword, much bigger and heavier than her court cutting. i have to back up again. the first ritual i have to go through was what she called the emotional chord cutting ceremony . $3,909. and what it consists of is you lie on a massage table, thus -- nothing sketchy, no touching at all. she may not have been in the room. i lay there in a cold room for an hour and the next day i get a terrible flu. she said, that's perfect. evidence that it is working. you're getting all the bad stuff out. the bad stuff was because she had done this port cutting, she takes up this big knife. she holds a knife. she explains that we all have these, she believes that we are all performing and healthy emotional connections. think of it like tied down by tiny people with roads all over them. sandra to the rescue. she will cut them. you know, you stand there with the
louise anthony and mary were veterans, a depth. so when it came time for me to graduate the let me away from the living room and into the candle at steady sounder are rated -- operating with the sword, much bigger and heavier than her court cutting. i have to back up again. the first ritual i have to go through was what she called the emotional chord cutting ceremony . $3,909. and what it consists of is you lie on a massage table, thus -- nothing sketchy, no touching at all. she may not have...
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well, boy, right off the top of my head, early on in life it was women writers like louise fujitsu who wrote harriet the spy. and, of course, harper lee who wrote to kill a mockingbird. those two books really shaped my life. i was very affected by billy jean king beating bobby rigs that was, of course, a famous tennis match in the 1970s that i watched. shirley chisholm when she ran for president in '72. i heard her speak at duke university. i was very aware that a black woman was running for president and i was very frustrated and i could not vote yet. later on, i was very impressed by the emerging voices of lesbian authors, rita may brown, audrian rich but also i had an interest in what was going on globally in terms of jewish women who had been resistance fighters in the holocaust and then the memoirist who wrote about the struggle for women to tell their stories in a female voice and initially i majored in jewish history as an undergrad and lived in israel for a year. so i'm kind of all over the place in terms of survivors, those unafraid to speak, those who were able to use the wri
well, boy, right off the top of my head, early on in life it was women writers like louise fujitsu who wrote harriet the spy. and, of course, harper lee who wrote to kill a mockingbird. those two books really shaped my life. i was very affected by billy jean king beating bobby rigs that was, of course, a famous tennis match in the 1970s that i watched. shirley chisholm when she ran for president in '72. i heard her speak at duke university. i was very aware that a black woman was running for...
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when louise livingstone, the wife of edward livingston, had a ball around the war of 1812, the battle of new orleans, there was a terror that the president come into jackson, was going to come. one of the ladies was terrified, he said that is your backwoodsman? he is a prince. he culd play either role. the ite house breaking down to it -- the menace madness of democracy and the common man running amok. you know, you can't be for -- you can't be against the common man running amok and then being for democracy when it comes together. it is like one man's pork in another man's state. [laughter] >> if you're going to charleston from you have to go by the college of charleston and say hello to his mother's grave. >> always, there is endless controversy. >> just go say hello. >> okay. we appreciate the whole sumpter thing. >> that worked out well. >> if you have an e-mail that said the man killed 10 people personally with his three indian wars, his revolutionary war battles, and those for other ballots on jankowski mentor, would it surprise you? >> what's surprising? that he did didn't? >>
when louise livingstone, the wife of edward livingston, had a ball around the war of 1812, the battle of new orleans, there was a terror that the president come into jackson, was going to come. one of the ladies was terrified, he said that is your backwoodsman? he is a prince. he culd play either role. the ite house breaking down to it -- the menace madness of democracy and the common man running amok. you know, you can't be for -- you can't be against the common man running amok and then being...
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my name is louise dunlap. i am not the one who worked for her friends of the earth, but another one strongly influenced by dave when i was a teenager and in my 20s and you can see that i'm carrying it forward. so i have some flyers about this meeting and not give it to people afterwards. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> anyone else? .. i think the locomotive -- that was how we started and that is what he cared about most but what he didn't count on was he was quick to get these other issues that were correctly regarded as environmental. pollution, pesticide, non proliferation, he was very quick -- he brought a lot of teams into this movement and this was one of them. people like michael abelman who was mentored, smart farming, he was interested in all these things, all these aspects. >> this is your exercise program. >> the young people. i wonder if you have a 20-year-old, the new millennial, are they embracing the same view or a different view? do you have a read on the real young people? there is somet
my name is louise dunlap. i am not the one who worked for her friends of the earth, but another one strongly influenced by dave when i was a teenager and in my 20s and you can see that i'm carrying it forward. so i have some flyers about this meeting and not give it to people afterwards. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> anyone else? .. i think the locomotive -- that was how we started and that is what he cared about most but what he didn't count on was he was quick to get...
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our guest is louise barnett. we thank you for joining us. >> guest: thank you area match. >> now, william souder recounts the life of dick darman. she offered an indictment of insecticides including ddt in her book, "silent spring" published in 1962. following the publication, ddt was banned and the environmental protection agency created. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of "silent spring." this is a little over an hour. [applause] >> thank you. thank you overcoming tonight to this wonderful facility. i love coming here. i always remind these guys are so fortunate to work at the national conservation training center. it's a really terrific facility. nice to be back here. nice to see all of you. i guess and the warm-up act for the presidential debate later tonight. i promise no spin and i promise to finish in time so that those of you who can't get enough of politics will be able to go see it, although i don't know who that would be at this point. i'm sure we all want to see the debate, s
our guest is louise barnett. we thank you for joining us. >> guest: thank you area match. >> now, william souder recounts the life of dick darman. she offered an indictment of insecticides including ddt in her book, "silent spring" published in 1962. following the publication, ddt was banned and the environmental protection agency created. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of "silent spring." this is a little over an hour. [applause]...
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there are many people who work on this topic who have helped move forward on the agenda but louise is one of the man deserves a lot of credit. >> we have been talking with philip auerswald, "the coming prosperity," how entrepreneurs are transforming the global economy. his most recent book. booktv of location at george mason university. >> tell us what you think of our programming this weekend. you can freeze us at booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail, booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> at the end of world war ii we had twelve million men under arms. we have 2,000 flag officers and generals. today we have 1,000 flag officers and generals and 1.2 million under arms. the ratio is totally out of whack. we almost have an admiral for every ship in the navy. not a captain, and admiral. what we have done is go through and look at areas where we could not necessarily save all of the money but we could transfer responsibilities that are not truly in defense of the country out of the pentagon and consolidate programs and save a significant amount of money
there are many people who work on this topic who have helped move forward on the agenda but louise is one of the man deserves a lot of credit. >> we have been talking with philip auerswald, "the coming prosperity," how entrepreneurs are transforming the global economy. his most recent book. booktv of location at george mason university. >> tell us what you think of our programming this weekend. you can freeze us at booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail,...
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my name is louise dunlap. i'm not the one who works for news of the earth, the i was strongly influenced him as a teenager and my 20th and now i'm carrying forward. >> anyone else? >> yes, thank you both very much. i don't know all that much about david brower's work, so i'm accustomed to seeing him identified with wide-open spaces and preserving them. a certain amount of the environmental movement these days is focused on cities, on walkable cities, green cities, urban farming and all that. did mr. brower ever take an interest as an environmental lapel? thank you. >> i think the locomotive that drove him was wilderness and that was how he started and i think that gave him -- that's what he cared about he was very quick to give them is that feathers issues, but he quickly regarded environmental. it is nuclear proliferation. he was very quick -- he brought a lot of different themes into this movement. he mentored and smart farming and so i think he was. he was interested in all these things, all these aspects.
my name is louise dunlap. i'm not the one who works for news of the earth, the i was strongly influenced him as a teenager and my 20th and now i'm carrying forward. >> anyone else? >> yes, thank you both very much. i don't know all that much about david brower's work, so i'm accustomed to seeing him identified with wide-open spaces and preserving them. a certain amount of the environmental movement these days is focused on cities, on walkable cities, green cities, urban farming and...
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books he is co-author along with his long-suffering wife suzanne of two incredibly talented children, louise and extraordinary singer and musician who i hope will make it here this evening and sam, who is currently attending yale which bob tells me is a four year institution in either hartford or new haven. let me begin our discussion by pointing out the fitting miss of discussing my american revolution here on delancey st.. delancey is where prominent you cannot family who fled to ireland in the 16th surgery a branch of the family subsequently emigrated to the comment of new york where they became major landowners. their state included the place for you now sit and i now stand. during the revolution that delancey's were among new york's most steadfast loyalist. oliver delancey joined general howell on staten island in 1776 for the battle of new york and raised and equipped that delancey burt eight of three battalions consisting of 1500 loyalist volunteers who served as commanding officer on long island. the delancey's lead new york at the end of the revolution. they left behind a street wit
books he is co-author along with his long-suffering wife suzanne of two incredibly talented children, louise and extraordinary singer and musician who i hope will make it here this evening and sam, who is currently attending yale which bob tells me is a four year institution in either hartford or new haven. let me begin our discussion by pointing out the fitting miss of discussing my american revolution here on delancey st.. delancey is where prominent you cannot family who fled to ireland in...
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louise, sam as attending yale. a four year institution. let me begin our discussion by putting out, the american revolution here on dentistry. the bill and seas were a promising new gun family fled to england and ireland and 16th century. a branch of the family subsequently emigrated to new york where they became major landowners. their state included a place where you know said, and i now stand. during the revolution, there were among new york's most steadfast loyalists. oliver delancey joined s.i. in 1776, the battle of new york and raised and equipped the delancey brigade of three battalions consisting of 1500 loyalists volunteers who served as commanding officer. they fled new york at the end of the revolution. they left behind a street with their name on it and in the 19th century fell into the political sway of one of new york's great work healers, big time sullivan, an ancestor of bombs, the so-called gang of the bowery. the western end of the lancet street was subsequently renamed in honor of his mother who fled her native village
louise, sam as attending yale. a four year institution. let me begin our discussion by putting out, the american revolution here on dentistry. the bill and seas were a promising new gun family fled to england and ireland and 16th century. a branch of the family subsequently emigrated to new york where they became major landowners. their state included a place where you know said, and i now stand. during the revolution, there were among new york's most steadfast loyalists. oliver delancey joined...
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playboy louises, so, to little old me, a multibillion dollar outfit just lost. >> host: when and where did you get your ph.d., and what is it in? >> guest: from case western reserve university in cleveland, ohio, 1980, i think, or '79. i'm getting too old to remember these things. it was on communication, on the way in which mass media effects change, changes the human brain and changes the human being and changes the all church -- culture. >> host: and what are you doing here at liberty university? >> guest: i am bringing my wide knowledge to this, to the faculty here, and they have taken my archive which is masted in the next room and thousands of books and many, many, many thousands of documents so that there will be a home for this material, and we'll be able to at least have a record of this whole history of the history of the sexual revolution as it was changed in the united states and the western world. >> host: and sexual sabotage is your third book, correct? >> guest: well, it depends how you count, third or fourth, yeah. >> host: you working on another one? >> guest: yes. yes
playboy louises, so, to little old me, a multibillion dollar outfit just lost. >> host: when and where did you get your ph.d., and what is it in? >> guest: from case western reserve university in cleveland, ohio, 1980, i think, or '79. i'm getting too old to remember these things. it was on communication, on the way in which mass media effects change, changes the human brain and changes the human being and changes the all church -- culture. >> host: and what are you doing here...
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c-span: louise barnett, author of "touched by fire," what's that title mean? >> guest: it comes from a speech that oliver wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. he said, "to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. and we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing." i haven't exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired and matured in a way that perhaps hasn't happened to every generation. c-span: but the subtitle on your book is "the life, death and mythic afterlife of george armstrong custer." who was general custer? >> guest: well, custer was part of that generation that was touched by the fire of the civil war. he had a splendid, heroic career as a general in the civil war. and then afterwards, the time when he becomes very interesting to me, at the age of 25, he was one of 135 unemployed major generals. he had to redirect his life. for the first few years, it wasn't easy. and then he found a new career on t
c-span: louise barnett, author of "touched by fire," what's that title mean? >> guest: it comes from a speech that oliver wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. he said, "to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. and we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing." i haven't exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired...
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you listed louise -- >> guest: yeah. it was a favorite book. and that was because of the style of her writing a also it's such a surprise. it's such a surprise because here's this, basically, failed actress, and her book which is very n a way, very similar or her story to pat jordan's "a false spring" which is about baseball and a young guy who really has all the chances in the world given to him. and through sheer jerkiness runs themself out of a job. or maybe not a good curveball in his case, but louise brooks was beautiful and makes a lot of mistakes. and it's a tragedy. you know, the frank sinatra song, "i did it my way," she did it her way. it lasted for a while because she was young and beautiful but did not serve her well in the long run. but in the long run, sometimes there are second acts in life. maybe you are a roy hobbs in many different ways. and by god, in her old age out of no training whatsoever, boy, she could write a sentence. >> host: rich lives in leland, mississippi, and, rich, you're on booktv on c-span2 with david produce
you listed louise -- >> guest: yeah. it was a favorite book. and that was because of the style of her writing a also it's such a surprise. it's such a surprise because here's this, basically, failed actress, and her book which is very n a way, very similar or her story to pat jordan's "a false spring" which is about baseball and a young guy who really has all the chances in the world given to him. and through sheer jerkiness runs themself out of a job. or maybe not a good...
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him and i stayed in touch with his wife, who was an absolutely wonderful woman who remarried later--louise otis--geist otis nichols and who died in may; was a marvelous person who had, to my ino--immense joy, the chance to read this book in bound galleys and was very enthusiastic about it. i felt very pleased that it--that it pleased her. c-span: when did the judge die? >> guest: some years ago. c-span: did he have a chance to see you be successful? >> guest: well, he knew about earlier books, but i think this book has--is probably the most accessible for people of those i have written. c-span: after you got out of radcli... >> guest: in non-academics, anyway. c-span: after you got out of radcliffe, where'd you go? >> guest: well, i went for--for a year to the london school of economics on a fulbright, was married at the end of the year and then came back to do my graduate work at harvard. c-span: who'd you marry? >> guest: i married charles maier, who is a historian, now a professor, at harvard. c-span: you got your phd in what? >> guest: in american history. and i work with bernard baily
him and i stayed in touch with his wife, who was an absolutely wonderful woman who remarried later--louise otis--geist otis nichols and who died in may; was a marvelous person who had, to my ino--immense joy, the chance to read this book in bound galleys and was very enthusiastic about it. i felt very pleased that it--that it pleased her. c-span: when did the judge die? >> guest: some years ago. c-span: did he have a chance to see you be successful? >> guest: well, he knew about...
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louise say they will produce all of the witnesses that spoke to intelligence officers and five back to testify? says stephen it is right with you a context with sony one handful of detainee's left gain in a war of choice behalf to fight back in some capacity but there howled preventive late to ensure they don't have opportunity to kill soldiers. when you take the reasonableness of the d.c. circuit with this small population no question wonder if we can handle habeas cases nobody else is put in their the we could handle the versions that are there. what happens when you take that to export to another context? it is a challenge i am not entirely certain with what they should do about afghanistan. maybe he can address the in his rebuttal and how it works but as a matter of constitutional right somebody captured on the field of battle and there is a dispute one was captured in pakistan those who were captured maybe he wants to kraft the rule that would be a gauge of the world war we had 1 million pow and our charge a got continuing members on both fronts. so if as a matter of constitutiona
louise say they will produce all of the witnesses that spoke to intelligence officers and five back to testify? says stephen it is right with you a context with sony one handful of detainee's left gain in a war of choice behalf to fight back in some capacity but there howled preventive late to ensure they don't have opportunity to kill soldiers. when you take the reasonableness of the d.c. circuit with this small population no question wonder if we can handle habeas cases nobody else is put in...